{"id":5401,"date":"2025-06-22T20:30:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T03:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/?page_id=5401"},"modified":"2025-07-02T09:29:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T16:29:20","slug":"faculty-thomas-scanlon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/people\/faculty\/faculty-thomas-scanlon\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty: Thomas Scanlon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-b50ci5-af99debd6371c05bcea6243bff87bc5d\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-b50ci5-af99debd6371c05bcea6243bff87bc5d{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-b50ci5-af99debd6371c05bcea6243bff87bc5d .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-b50ci5-af99debd6371c05bcea6243bff87bc5d .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-b50ci5-af99debd6371c05bcea6243bff87bc5d av-special-heading-h2  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_third  avia-builder-el-first '><h2 class='av-special-heading-tag'  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Faculty<\/h2><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-94gofx-44cd276ad6504b5c34ad0af8842a290f\">\n.flex_column.av-94gofx-44cd276ad6504b5c34ad0af8842a290f{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-94gofx-44cd276ad6504b5c34ad0af8842a290f av_one_third  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_heading  el_before_av_two_third  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><section  class='avia-team-member av-7fdthp-6e59e9ec5205d1bbcc04dbfd924a24fa  avia-builder-el-2  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\" ><div class=\"team-img-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-5402 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-5402 avia_image avia_image_team' src=\"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_1057-300x229.jpg\" alt='Thomas Scanlon'  itemprop=\"image\"   height=\"229\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_1057-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_1057-1030x787.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_1057-768x587.jpg 768w, https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_1057-1536x1174.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_1057-2048x1565.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_1057-1500x1146.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_1057-705x539.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div><h3 class='team-member-name '  itemprop=\"name\" >Thomas Scanlon<\/h3><div class='team-member-job-title '  itemprop=\"jobTitle\" >Professor Emeritus, <em>Comparative Literature\/Classics<\/em><\/div><div class='team-member-description '  itemprop=\"description\" ><p>University of Vienna, post-doctoral Fulbright Fellow, 1978-79<br \/>\nOhio State University, Ph.D. 1978, M.A. 1975<br \/>\nCorpus Christi College, Cambridge University, dissertation-year fellowship, 1976-77<br \/>\nBritish School of Archaeology, Athens, Summer 1977<br \/>\nAmerican School of Classical Studies, Summer Session, 1975<br \/>\nDuquesne University, B.A. 1972<\/p>\n<p><strong>Email:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:thomas.scanlon@ucr.edu\">thomas.scanlon@ucr.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><span class='hidden team-member-affiliation'  itemprop=\"affiliation\" >UCR | Department of Comparative Literature and Languages<\/span><\/section><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-5c3rrh-4656c0aa1a17355eb2297e18c9aad9e1\">\n.flex_column.av-5c3rrh-4656c0aa1a17355eb2297e18c9aad9e1{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-5c3rrh-4656c0aa1a17355eb2297e18c9aad9e1 av_two_third  avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_one_third  avia-builder-el-last  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><p><section  class='av_textblock_section av-4h3av1-b60f788b3b4f9f52ddd2578c436935a7 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Thomas F. Scanlon is Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of California, Riverside, currently living in London, UK. Email: scanlon@ucr.edu<\/p>\n<p>Publications include Oxford Handbook of Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World (Oxford U.P., 2021, ed.), Greek Historiography (Wiley Blackwell, 2015), Greek Poetry and Sport, Classics@ (Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard, 2015, ed.), Oxford Readings in Sport in the Greek and Roman Worlds, 2 vols. (Oxford U.P., 2014, ed.), Eros and Greek Athletics (Oxford U.P., 2002), Olympia and Macedonia: Games, Gymnasia and Politics (Thessaloniki Society of Toronto, 1997), Spes Frustrata: Hope in Sallust (Carl Winter, Heidelberg U. P. 1987), Greek and Roman Athletics: A Bibliography (Ares Press, Chicago, 1984), and The Influence of Thucydides on Sallust (Carl Winter, Heidelberg U. P 1980). His research areas include Greek sport, Greek gender studies, Greek religion, and Greek and Roman historiography. Current major project is a study of Masculinity, Sports, and Violence, Ancient and Modern.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Professor-Scanlons-CV-2025.pdf\">Professor Scanlon&#8217;s CV 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  class='avia-button-wrap av-34cbul-665835cc3f0023ec69ce49c91b07d8fa-wrap avia-button-left  avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-last '><a href='https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/people\/faculty\/'  class='avia-button av-34cbul-665835cc3f0023ec69ce49c91b07d8fa avia-icon_select-yes-left-icon avia-size-medium avia-position-left avia-color-theme-color'  ><span class='avia_button_icon avia_button_icon_left' aria-hidden='true' data-av_icon='\ue88c' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello'><\/span><span class='avia_iconbox_title' >Back to Faculty<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":1769,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5401","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5401"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5418,"href":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5401\/revisions\/5418"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}